There are two Zeitler families recorded in Krasnoyar on the 1767 census.
(1) Johann Michael Zeitler from Burgsinn and Elisabeth Schneider from Burgsinn married 5 May 1766 in Büdingen.
Michael Zeitler, a farmer, and his wife Elisabeth arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the barque named Fortitudo under the command of Skipper John Scott.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Krasnoyar on 20 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 17.
(2) Karl Zeitler, a farmer, settled in the Volga German colony of Krasnoyar on 20 July 1767. He and his new wife are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 43.
Karl Zeitler from Krasnoyar and his family are recorded on the 1862 census of Gnadendorf.
The 1767 census records that both of these Zeitler families came from the German region of Dienheim.
- 1862 Gnadendorf Census.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Ks019, Ks081, Ks112.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt. German Migration to the Russian Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #616.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 418, 425.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3719.
Brent Mai